Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Introduction

Hello boys and girls! Today, you will be scientists learning all about the life cycle of a butterfly. How does a caterpillar turn into a beautiful butterfly?

Task

Remember to pay careful attention as you are learning! At the end, you will write a non-fiction book telling three facts that you learned about how a caterpillar turn into a butterfly. You will also make a title page and create three illustration to match your facts.

Process

You will work with your computer partner to visit the three websites below. If you are having trouble reading the words, make sure you use Read and Write Gold to help!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rvGUevGxDk

http://www.turtlediary.com/kindergarten-games/science-games/butterfly-life-cycle.html

http://www.thebutterflysite.com/life-cycle.shtml

Use the things you learned on these websites to write a non-fiction book. There are books on the counter with a green cover page for your title and three pages ready for you to write facts with matching illustrations.

Evaluation

	0	1	2
title	did not have a title page	had a title page, but title was off topic	title page with title matching text
three facts	did not include three facts	included less than three facts	included three facts
illustrations	did not include illustrations	included less than three illustrations or illustrations did not match the facts	included three illustrations that matched the facts

Conclusion

I hope that you had fun learning about how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly! Guess what? We will be getting caterpillars for our classroom next week! They will be butterflies before you know it!

You will all have the chance to share your books with the class, so make sure you do your very best!